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hyperspace

 
Dictionary: hy·per·space   ('pər-spās') pronunciation

n.
  1. Space that has four or more dimensions.
  2. A fictional space in which laws of physics may be circumvented allowing faster-than-light travel or time travel.

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Hacker Slang: hyperspace
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A memory location that is far away from where the program counter should be pointing, especially a place that is inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system. “Another core dump — looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow.” (Compare jump off into never-never land.) This usage is from the SF notion of a spaceship jumping into hyperspace, that is, taking a shortcut through higher-dimensional space — in other words, bypassing this universe. The variant east hyperspace is recorded among CMU and Bliss hackers.


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Hyperspace may refer to:

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The prefix hyper-



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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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